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Denis Diderot

There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
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Convenience Moral Perception
There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
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Happiness Oneself Passion
What a fine comedy this world would be if one did not play a part in it.
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Comedy Oneself Play World
People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you’ve got to keep your feet warm.
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Anand Thakur
I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
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Expectation Finding Myself Truth
No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
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Command Himself Man Nature Right
Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
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God Novel Rare
To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.
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Anand Thakur
Scepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Path Step Truth
Are we not madder than those first inhabitants of the plain of Sennar? We know that the distance separating the earth from the sky is infinite, and yet we do not stop building our tower.
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Build Distance Infinite Mad Plain Separate Tower
In order to get as much fame as one’s father one has to much more able than he.
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Fame Father Himself Order
Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.
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Command Force Obedience Power Violence
I have not the hope of being immortal, because the desire of it has not given me that vanity.
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Desire Hope Immortal Myself
First of all move me, surprise me, rend my heart; make me tremble, weep, shudder; outrage me; delight my eyes afterwards if you can.
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Delight Move Surprise Yourself
And his hands would plait the priest’s entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings.
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Hands King Priest
Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world.
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See Theory World

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